Beverly Whaling

Beverly Whaling was the Mayor of Clay, West Virginia until 15 November 2016, when she resigned following controversy over a racist Facebook post about First Lady Michelle Obama.

Biography
Beverly Whaling was born in West Virginia, and she was elected Mayor of Clay, West Virginia as a member of the conservative US Republican Party. She made headlines on 15 November 2016 when she liked the Facebook post of Clay County official Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who wrote that she was glad that the White House would now have a "classy" woman as First Lady (Melania Trump) instead of an "ape in heels" (Michelle Obama). Whaling liked the post and said that the post made her day. Whaling faced intense media scrutiny for her racism, only to state that she was not racist, and liked the post because she wanted transition in the White House. Nevertheless, the controversy forced her to resign.